You and Me on Vacation | Emily Henry
Mái Medina
by Mái Medina
3y ago
Well! I wasn’t expecting to like this book as much as I did…. did I say like? I meant Love!!!! Wow! I couldn’t put it down and it even made me cry!!! Can you believe that? who cries over a contemporary romance book?. This is the story of two young people: Poppy and Alex, who met in colleague and for the past 10 years have maintained their friendship by taking summer trips around the world. Of course, this is a romance book.. so basically it is a best-mates-to-lovers kind of book but it is soo more than that. It is told from two different timelines, one in the present when Poppy is trying to re ..read more
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The Survivors, the new Jane Harper novel
Mái Medina
by Mái Medina
3y ago
The Survivors by Jane Harper is one, if not THE one, 2020 release I was more excited about. Jane Harper has the wonderful gift of being able to transport you to remotes and inhospitable parts of Australia within the first pages of all her books and this, her fourth novel was not the exception. This book takes place in a remote and small town in Tasmania, although not a popular choice in Aussie literature it was a perfect choice for JH and her writing style. While reading The Survivors, I could imagine the feeling of the Antarctic wind on my face and the sound of the massive waves of the ocean ..read more
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First Road Trip After Lockdown | Reading Vlog
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by Mái Medina
3y ago
Well… after many months without feeling motivated to film videos… I’m back!!! Inspiration hit me and I decided to pick up my camera and document our weekend away in Phillip Island while reading two highly anticipated 2020 releases! Thanks for watching! xoxo If you are not part of the YT family… consider subscribing that way you don’t miss any of my future bookish videos ..read more
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – A book worth all the Hype!
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by Mái Medina
3y ago
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue has been, without a doubt, one of the most anticipated books across the Booktube community in 2020. Its promising and intriguing synopsis made it very hard for me and the rest of the world not to have high expectations of it (Which is very dangerous territory for any book). However, I’m happy to report that my expectations fell short and with this book V.E. Schwab positioned herself as one of the top fantasy writers of this generation and I can wait to read the rest of her books. With a-very-hard-to-achieve rating of 4.44 on Goodreads, the story of Adeline or ..read more
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I Give My Marriage a Year by Holly Wainwright
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by Mái Medina
3y ago
I Give My Marriage a Year is the third novel by Holly Wainwright (To be released on the 25th of August 2020) and it is completely different from her previous two books: The Mummy Bloggers and How to be Perfect. We meet Lou and Josh and their two young daughters, an Australian family, living in a nice townhouse in the suburbs of Sydney. But from the very first chapter, we know that their decade-long marriage is in trouble and Lou has decided that she is going to giver her marriage a year either to fix what’s broken or to call it quits. Throughout the book, not only we get to know how their rela ..read more
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Olive by Emma Gannon
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by Mái Medina
3y ago
Happy Aussie publication day!!!! Reading this debut novel was a real rollercoaster of emotions. I thought I was going to join Olive, a thirty-something-year-old woman who feels trapped between what she thinks she wants and what her friends, family and society expect of her. But no, I was pleasantly surprised with the other three storylines. Because although the blurb and the name of this book focus on Olive, in reality, this book is about a group of really good friends, all of them around the same age but living four completely different lives. Throughout the book, we get to know Olive (recent ..read more
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Down Among the Sticks & Bones by Seanan McGuire
Mái Medina
by Mái Medina
4y ago
Down Among the Sticks and Bones is an unexpectedly good sequel to Every Heart a Doorway story. As always, I did not know the specifics of this book before reading it and I was pleasantly surprised when I found out that this was the back story of Jack & Jill. Jack & Jill are two teenagers who are attending Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children after returning from what it seems to be a dark world in which vampires are a normal threat. In the first book, it was clear that these twins had a very interesting story and their experience in their world was very different compared not onl ..read more
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Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Mái Medina
by Mái Medina
4y ago
A very interesting universe with a very unusual boarding school at its centre. This Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children is the home of some of the teenagers who have come back from their adventures in different worlds but now, not only they want to go back to those magical, weird and unique homes, but also they do not fit anymore with their families and their “old” lives. This book took a turn that I was not expecting, but now, I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the series! It is an easy read, with an incredible universe to discover. “You’re nobody’s rainbow. You’re nobody’s pri ..read more
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Where the Crawdads Sings by Delia Owens
Mái Medina
by Mái Medina
4y ago
Despite the massive hype this book had last year, I wasn’t sure about it. I don’t know why, but I just wasn’t looking forward to reading it. Finally last month, I picked it up as it was the only book in my TBR with a WH question in the title (Wheel of Booksibilities prompt) and I have to say…. oh boy it took me a long while to get into it but it was sooo worth it! After having read it, I must admit it is a beautifully written book. It covers many difficult topics like racism, poverty, alcoholism, domestic violence, abandonment, solitude, among many more, but it also delves into perseverance, i ..read more
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Emma by Jane Austen
Mái Medina
by Mái Medina
4y ago
My first Jane Austen book! YaY!!!! It only took me 32.5 years to get it done! To be honest, I was very “anxious” about reading anything by Jane Austen because it is soo highly regarded and praised that I just did not want to be the one who couldn’t understand the beauty in her books! After spending the majority of the last two days reading Emma, I must say that although it was not a 5 star for me, I did enjoy it and it was worth my time. As someone whose mother language is not English, I did have a bit of a hard time getting used to the vocabulary and the type of writing, but we got there at t ..read more
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